Kathmandu – Nepali Congress and CPN-UML have proposed a three-month deadline for parliamentary committees in lawmaking.

Since bills have been stuck in parliamentary committees for a long time, the task force formed by the Congress and the UML has proposed to break the trend and speed up lawmaking, and once a new bill reaches the House of Representatives committee, the concerned thematic committee should finalize it within a maximum of 90 days.

In order to set a deadline for lawmaking, the House of Representatives Rules, the National Assembly Rules, and the Joint Working Procedures of the Federal Parliament will have to be amended. It has been decided to discuss with the opposition parties to take forward the homework of amending the rules.

If a bill is made to amend an act, the committee should finalize it within 60 days, otherwise the House of Representatives will automatically proceed without any obstacles. The attempt is made to set a deadline in the rules so that the concerned thematic committee can request additional time with a satisfactory reason and the proposal to request such time must be approved by the House of Representatives meeting itself.